[Commlist] New book: 'TV Transformations & Transgressive Women - From Prisoner: Cell Block H to Wentworth'

We are delighted to announce publication of the edited collection, */TV 
Transformations & Transgressive Women: From /Prisoner: Cell Block// H 
/to /Wentworth*, published this month by Peter Lang. The editors are 
Radha O’Meara, Tessa Dwyer, Stayci Taylor and Craig Batty.

https://www.peterlang.com/document/1183615 
<https://www.peterlang.com/document/1183615>

A deep dive into iconic 1980s Australian women-in-prison TV drama 
/Prisoner/ (aka /Cell Block/ H), its contemporary reimagining as 
/Wentworth/, and its broader, global industry significance and 
influence, this book brings together a range of scholarly and industry 
perspectives, including an interview with actor Shareena Clanton 
(/Wentworth/’s Doreen Anderson). Its chapters draw on talks with 
producers, screenwriters and casting; fan voices from the /Wentworth/ 
twitterverse; comparisons with Netflix’s /Orange is the New Black/; 
queer and LGBTQ approaches; and international production histories and 
contexts. By charting a path from /Prisoner/ to /Wentworth/, the book 
offers a new mapping of TV shifts and transformations through the lens 
of female transgression, ruminating on the history, currency, industry 
position and cultural value of women-in-prison series.

*Contents*

Foreword (Kim Akass and Sue Turnbull)

Breakout Women: Introduction to TV Transformations, Gender and 
Transgression (Radha O’Meara, Tessa Dwyer, Stayci Taylor and Craig Batty)

/Part I On the Inside: Voices from Industry/

1 Representation, Responsibility and Racism: A Courageous Conversation 
with Shareena Clanton (interview with Shareena Clanton)

2 Repeat Offender: TV Remakes, Reboots and Revival from Prisoner to 
Wentworth and beyond (Tessa Dwyer and Philippa Burne)

3 Scriptwriting on the Inside: The Streamlined System of Prisoner and 
the Collaborative Community of Wentworth (Radha O’Meara)

4 ‘I Want to See Rit’ Connors. I Want to See Her Now!’: The TV Series 
Guest Performer as Intertextual Messenger (Helen Milte)

/Part II She’s Got Form: Narrative, Genre and Motif/

5 Women in the System: Narrative Modes and Rhetoric in Wentworth and 
Orange is the New Black (Kim Yen Howells-Ng)

6 Flashbacks and Morality in Women’s Prison TV Drama (Niall Brennan)

7 Gothic Themes in Australian TV’s Women’s Prison Dramas (Kate Warner)

8 ‘You Want to See Your Daughter? You Tell Me What Happened’: Motherhood 
and the Market Economy in Wentworth (Corrine E. Hinton and Cathrine 
Hoekstra)

/Part III Tough Love: Punishment, Power and Identity/

9 Orange is the New Black, Wentworth and Contemporary Media Feminisms: 
Systemic Inequality and Individual Responsibility (Jessica Ford)

10 Prison Blues and Token Truths: Inside the Reality and Fantasy of 
First Nations Representations in Australian Women’s Prison Drama 
Wentworth (Josie Rose Atkinson)

11 Doing (Queer) Time in Wentworth (Whitney Monaghan)

12 ‘And Then They Confiscate Her Hormones’: Trans Incarceration and/in 
Wentworth and Orange is the New Black (Sam McCracken)

13 The Motherless Teenage Daughter: Lock Her Up or Send Her Away (Diana 
Sandars)

14 The Stone-Cold Power Dame: TV Women in Power, State Security and 
National Discourse (Alex Bevan)

/Part IV On the Outside: Fandom, Activism and Afterlives/

15 Telling It Like It Was: Independent Activist Filmmaking, Australian 
Prison Systems and Prisoner (Olympia Barron, Catherine Gillam and 
Alexander Gionfriddo)

16 From Boys to Men via Cell Block H: Prisoner, Queer Identities and 
Productive Fan Nostalgia (Craig Haslop and Craig Batty)

17 ‘It’s Not My Fault I Help Girls Realize They’re Lesbians’: Compulsory 
Homosexuality as Communication in Online Wentworth Fandom (Amanda K. Allen)

18 Competing Desires, Competing Interests: Opening the Dialogue between 
Wentworth, Fans and Industry (Renee Middlemost and Stayci Taylor)

19 Recommending Wentworth to the World: How Netflix ‘Changed the Show’ 
and Australian TV Drama Production (Alexa Scarlata)


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